• The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine of the UN Human Rights Council found that Russia systematically deported and forcibly transferred Ukrainian children, constituting war crimes and crimes against humanity.
  • The ‘Bring Kids Back UA’ initiative by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has records of about 20,570 abducted Ukrainian children, but the true number is likely higher.
  • In 2023, Russia disclosed it had ‘received’ 744,000 children and reported to the UN that 46,000 Ukrainian children had received Russian passports.
  • Ukraine has managed to track down and bring back 2,126 children who were deported to Russia, forcibly transferred within occupied territory, or subjected to Russian ‘reeducation’.
  • Returned children are disoriented and distrustful of adults, showing signs of ideological indoctrination undergone in Russia.

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